"Something's wrong." Dong Zheng stopped after two steps, and Ren Heming frowned. He immediately lit a piece of talisman paper used to identify evil spirits. After the flame burned, the paper ashes fell on the ground and pointed directly at the girl who ran away. direction.
"There's something wrong with that child." Ren Heming stepped on the ashes with his feet. He looked at the place where the girl's figure disappeared and said, "If she was the child who was sacrificed, there would definitely be villagers who would follow to ensure the sacrifice went smoothly. She It should have escaped secretly, and... it was probably exploited by something unclean."
The sound of sobbing and running away quickly disappeared from hearing, and the girl was too far away for them to catch up.
Ren Heming sighed and said, "Let's go, don't worry about this, even if we catch up with her, what can we do? Take her back to the village where the plague broke out? Isn't that letting her die?"
No matter how you look at this girl's vitality, it's not that Dong Zheng doesn't want to save it, but after so many boxes of experience, he already understands that many times, people need to be selfish.
He had to complete the test in the library, and this was his only chance to release the blood contract with Cui Zuojing.
If he can, he needs to avoid any possibility of overgrowth.
With a slightly heavy heart, the two led their horses back to the trail again. The sun gradually slanted westward, pulling the shadows of the two of them very long. After walking for less than an hour, the road in front of them was blocked.
A few people fell to the ground standing in the way.
Dong Zheng and Ren Heming looked at each other, and both of them pressed their hands on the Xiuchun knife, slowly approaching cautiously. The man closest to them was facing down and motionless. Dong Zheng turned him over with the knife and found that his seven orifices were bleeding. already dead.
The forty-year-old man looked like a man-eater, with a big beard, and his round eyes seemed to be greatly frightened. Dong Zheng reached out and touched his neck, the body still had temperature, and the time of death should not exceed two hours.
Ren Heming checked the other corpses. They died in the same way as the bearded man. According to the distribution, they should have been killed one after another while fleeing in panic.
Some were carrying sacks, fruit scattered, brown feathers and bloodstains.
Dong Zheng: "It should be the people who went to sacrifice the little girl."
"There is no trauma, these people died very strangely." Ren Heming crouched on the ground and said to Dong Zheng, "It looks like an evil... I guess it is attached to the little girl."
Now it seems that not catching up is the right choice.
They continued to search, hoping to find other clues. Dong Zheng opened the body of a young man and found something tightly in his hand.
He touched it out. It was a small statue more than ten centimeters high. It was made of stone. I don’t know if it was scribbled originally, or it was often held in his hand and the details were smoothed out. It could only be roughly seen that it was a standing person , folded his arms against his chest, as if praying.
"Look at this." Dong Zheng showed the statue to Ren Heming, and Ren Heming couldn't figure out the doorway. "Maybe it's something related to sacrifice, so take it with you first."
The sun set in the west was about to set on the horizon, so they brought a statue of unknown purpose, mounted their horses, and continued to follow the direction in which the evil spirits fled.
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